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Issue: Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #12
Publication Date: April 1954
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Issues: #12 of 347 Issues (382 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: Archie SeriesView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Close-Up Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/15/1954
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 8, Part 2, No. 1, Periodicals, January-June, 1954.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; then standard Silver Age US; then standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Character(s): Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Hey Betty! Here's a problem on the law of gravity! Would you like to know why the apple fell for Newton?
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Disclose Notes: Later redrawn for the cover of Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #63
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Gay Blades

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
First Line: Archie! The pond is frozen over!
Synopsis: Betty conspires with a reluctant Jughead to break Archie and Veronica up at the ice skating pond.
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Pages: 4
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Hunger Pains!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: teen
Character(s): Suzie; unidentified hobo
First Line: I beg your pardon, young lady!
Synopsis: Suzie trades one-liners with a hobo looking for a handout.
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Disclose Notes: The shop window in the first panel says "Samm's Hobby Shop". Several of the Suzie heads may be paste-ups of Dan DeCarlo's work.
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The Apple Chump-Ling

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Miss Grundy; Betty Cooper
First Line: Where is yours, Veronica?
Synopsis: Archie swipes some apples from Jughead to give to Veronica so she can pass her Home Economics baking class.
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Pages: 3
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Character(s): Wilbur Wilkin
First Line: How's your arithmetic, gang?
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Promo for Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) featuring Wilbur adding up the formula for his eponymous series on a blackboard.
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Packed Solid!

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Character(s): Wilbur Wilkin; Red Wilson; Mr. Dripwaite; Miss Gargle
First Line: ... Salami, ... cheeses, ... cookies .... nuts ....
Synopsis: The Principal conducts locker inspections and doesn't like what he finds.
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Subject Matter
Character(s): Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Repeat performance!
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Archie's Pal Jughead Annual (Archie, 1953 series) #2 and Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica Annual (Archie, 1953 series) #2.
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Insufferable Pals

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Dink Travis
First Line: Yes, Betty darling, I've been a selfish miserly meanie!
Synopsis: Veronica breaks a date with Archie to go out with another boy. Betty at first refuses to be Archie's second choice, but then decides to date him and take him to the same place Veronica is with the other boy.
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Vote Goat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
First Line: She won! She won!
Synopsis: Veronica wins a student vote for best dressed girl in school.
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Tomato Surprise

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Hi girls! - What's good in the grocery line?
Synopsis: When Jughead hears Betty and Veronica are buying fresh tomatoes for tomato sauce, he volunteers to make his family's special recipe sauce for them.
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Pages: 2.67
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Ginger Snapp; Ickky Jones; Tommy Turner; Patsy; Bunny Clarke
First Line: If you knew Ginger, like we know Ginger...
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Promo for Ginger Comics (Archie, 1951 series) featuring Ginger and her friends.
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A Short Sweet Story

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Katy Keene; Sis
First Line: Yoo hoo, Katy! I'm home from school - hmm!
Synopsis: Katy is unable to be home in time to make dinner for Sis, so she allows her younger sibling to make a sandwich on her own.
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Disclose Notes: Katy's head and coiffure by Geraldine Geremia (Bronx 61, NY); Sis's dress by Bonnie Maikawa (Toronto, Ontario); Katy's dress by Katena Kozocas (Chicago 28, IL).
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Wrong Guest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews
First Line: How about it, Juggie? A dinner fit for a king!
Synopsis: Betty promises Jughead a steak dinner if he can deliver Archie to the same dinner.
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In Content Item: FlagB&V Friends Double Digest Magazine #237 [Direct Edition] published February 2014
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Disclose Notes: Credits from B&V Friends Double Digest #237.
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Stuff About Stars
First Line: Lex Barker Collects Movie Props
Synopsis: Anecdotes about movie stars.
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Ski Sick

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
First Line: Do you think Archie and Reggie are waiting for us at the top, Ronnie?
Synopsis: When the boys spurn the girls' request to show them how to ski, the girls decide to go skiing anyway. Only they go skiing down the expert slope, being filmed by a newsreel camera Reggie has set up to film them.
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In Content Item: FlagB&V Friends Double Digest Magazine #237 [Direct Edition] published February 2014
as Ski Sick [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Harry Lucey's signature is in the bottom right of the last story panel.
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Please Be Seated!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge
First Line: Hi, Betty! I'm glad you called!
Synopsis: Mr. Lodge tries to get Veronica to sit in the chair correctly while she talks to Betty over the phone.
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Feet First!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
First Line: Hello! Archie? Yes! Veronica's here!!!
Synopsis: Archie asks Betty when Veronica will go dancing with him again.
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No Help Wanted

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
First Line: It was a swell movie, Archie!
Synopsis: Veronica wants to help Betty out, but there are some things she'd rather do herself.
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